How to configure phpMyAdmin:phpmyadmin.html
Added 2005-03-31:
If you are on FreeBSD, ignore this tutorial.
Install MySQL from the ports collection instead.
At the time of this writing the port is in /usr/ports/databases/mysql40-server.
Just do the following:

Point your browser to http://localhost/phpMyAdmin (don't be surprised if this link doesn't work at the time of reading!), enter with the root user and password, and you are ready to administrate your database in a very flexible manner.
Check out the tiny tutorial about adding a MySQL account from the command line.
Here goes the original tutorial (2002-08-18):

This is a MySQL install how-to.
Download the mysql tarball from www.mysql.com.
Install mysql: